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Writers Festival Radio

Ottawa International Writers Festival

About the Writers Festival The imagination is our most valuable renewable resource. So, twice a year we convene an international celebration of ideas to recharge our imaginations. From politics to poetry, science to music, history to thrillers, we celebrate the full diversity of the word and the gifted writers who guide us in our exploration of the world. Our year-round special events keep the ideas coming between Festivals. We believe that a love of reading and learning should be nurtured

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S5 E11: Almost Visible with Michelle Sinclair

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/12/09

CKCU’s Susan Johnston sits down with Ottawa’s Michelle Sinclair about her acclaimed debut novel, Almost Visible . Exploring cultural and personal memory, it reflects on what can happen when a lonely person intervenes in another person's life. Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going

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00:39:44

S5 E10: The Opportunist with Elyse Friedman

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/12/01

Steven W. Beattie interviews Elyse Friedman, acclaimed author, screenwriter, poet and playwright. Her latest novel, The Opportunist is a sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious family. When Alana Shropshire’s seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, a saucy twenty-eight-year-old, a flurry of messages arrive from Alana’s brothers, urging her to help “protect Dad” from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to

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00:40:39

S5 E9: The Petroleum Papers with Geoff Dembicki

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/12/01

The Festival’s Neil Wilson sits down with Geoff Dembicki, an investigative climate change reporter to discuss his acclaimed book, The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change, published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute. Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil

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00:51:38

S5 E8 Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood with...

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/11/24

Steven W. Beattie hosts a conversation with consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston. His latest, Jennie's Boy, reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood. "Wayne Johnston’s childhood in Newfoundland was full of laughter, pain and poverty. And then laughter again. His memoir, Jennie’s Boy, is an uplifting account of a childhood not just survived—he came close to death too many times to count—but

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00:47:49

S5 E7: Try Not to Be Strange with Michael Hingston

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/11/17

Peter Schneider speaks with author, journalist and publisher Michael Hingston about his remarkable book, Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda. It tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a

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00:57:51

S5 E6: Orange for the Sunsets With Tina Athaide

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/11/09

We present the the third and final of our special episodes hosted by York University’s Zulfikar Hirji and presented in collaboration with Carleton University’s Beyond Resettlement Conference. (https://carleton.ca/uganda-collection/beyond-resettlement/) Born in Uganda, Tina Athaide immigrated with her family to Canada from England and has been a teacher for thirty years. Her debut novel, Orange for the Sunsets. The Middle Grade book is a Junior Library Guild Selection and winner of the CCBC

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01:02:37

S5 E5: Where The Air Is Sweet With Tasneem Jamal

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/11/09

We present the second of three special episodes hosted by York University’s Zulfikar Hirji and presented in collaboration with Carleton University’s Beyond Resettlement Conference. (https://carleton.ca/uganda-collection/beyond-resettlement/) Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. The author of the novel Where the Air Is Sweet, she serves as a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and is at work on her second novel. The Ottawa International

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00:52:04

S5 E4: We Are All Birds of Uganda with Hafsa Zayyan

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/11/08

We present the first of three special episodes hosted by York University’s Zulfikar Hirji and presented in collaboration with Carleton University’s Beyond Resettlement Conference. (https://carleton.ca/uganda-collection/beyond-resettlement/) Hafsa Zayyan is half-Nigerian, half-Pakistani and was born and raised (mostly) in the UK. She is a dispute resolution lawyer working in the City of London and is also the author of We Are All Birds of Uganda, the winner of MerkyBooks’ inaugural New Writer’s

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01:00:54

S5 E3 The Myth of Normal with Gabor Maté

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/11/03

This conversation between CBC's Amanda Pfeffer and Dr. Gabor Maté was recorded at a live event on October 1, 2022. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture is a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. Gabor Maté’s internationally bestselling books have changed the way we look at addiction and have been integral in shifting the conversations around ADHD, stress,

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00:33:27

S5 E2 Dream of Me as Water with David Ly

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/10/06

Poet Ellen Chang-Richardson reunites with David Ly for a conversation on his second collection Dream of Me as Water, which explores ways of being that are not beholden to the expectations of others. Using water as his central metaphor, Ly meditates on how identity is never a stagnant concept, but instead something that is intangible, fluid, and ever-evolving. Dream of Me as Water revels in the nuances of the self, flouting outside perceptions for deeper, more personal realities.

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00:37:20

S5 E1 Haven with Emma Donoghue

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/09/29

Kate Heartfield sits down with acclaimed bestseller Emma Donoghue to discuss her latest move, Haven. Around the year 600, three men vow to leave the world behind and set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar priest named Artt has a dream in which God tells him to leave the sinful world behind. With two monks—young Trian and old Cormac—he rows down the River Shannon in search of an isolated spot in

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00:49:29

S4 E21 Ymir with Rich Larson

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/07/12

Sean Wilson sits down with Rich Larson to talk about his acclaimed second novel, Ymir, a gripping, far-future thriller. "Larson is a writer who can do just about anything, and in his second novel he splices Iain M. Banks with Alastair Reynolds…This is brain-busting sci-fi for the hardcore crowd." — Nick Wolven Yorick never wanted to see his homeworld again. He left Ymir two decades ago, with half his face blown off and no love lost for the place. But when his employer's mines are threatened by a

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00:29:36

S4 E20 And a Dog Called Fig with Helen Humphreys

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/07/05

Author and poet Rhonda Douglas hosts a conversation with Helen Humphreys, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award, about her latest publication, And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life . An artist’s solitude is a sacred space, one to be guarded and kept apart from the chaos of the world. This isolation allows for uninhibited wandering, uninterrupted meditation and the nurturing of sparks of inspiration

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00:27:07

S4 EP19 Poison Lilies with Katie Tallo

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/07/05

Don’t miss this conversation between CKCU’s Susan Johnston and award-winning screenwriter and director Katie Tallo about her latest novel, Poison Lilies. In this follow-up to the international bestseller Dark August, Gus Monet becomes dangerously entangled with a powerful family whose wealth and success are built on dark and deadly secrets. After moving back to her hometown and solving her mother's murder, Augusta (Gus) Monet thought she was finally settled. Content for the first time in her life

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00:51:09

S4 EP 18 The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi with Keith Seifert

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/28

Join us for a conversation between Sean Wilson and Dr. Keith Seifert, author of The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies. In this illuminating book, esteemed mycologist Keith Seifert reveals the important role that microscopic fungi, including yeasts, molds, and slimes, play in our lives, all while remaining invisible to the naked eye. Despite their many benefits, we hold a precarious relationship with fungi: fungal diseases lead to over 1

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00:36:32

S4 E17 But the sun with Conyer Clayton

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/28

Join us for a conversation between poets nina jane drystek and Conyer Clayton winner of the Ottawa Book Award. But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves, Conyer Clayton's follow-up to her award-winning debut, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite, is a collection of prose poems that employs surrealism, humour, and body horror to cope with CPTSD, assault, loss, fear, and the memories of it all. The narrator weaves her way through largely aquatic landscapes-water parks, ponds, beast-filled

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00:45:25

S4 E16 A Hero of Our Time with Naben Ruthnum

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/21

Peter Schneider interviews Naben Ruthnam about his novel, A Hero of Our Time, a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity. Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate domination at AAP, an edutech startup determined to automate higher education. Osman, obsessed by Olivia’s ability to successfully disguise ambition and self-interest as collectivist diversity politics, is bent on exposing

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00:44:26

S4 E15 I Am Billy the Kid with Michael Blouin

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/21

Author and editor Stuart Ross sits down with ReLit Award Winner Michael Blouin to talk about his new novel, I Am Billy the Kid , which imagines the life of the infamous gun fighter after he fakes his own death and heads to Canada in the company of his older brother Joseph. History tells us that the short and violent life of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, ended at the hand of Pat Garrett on the moonless night of July 14, 1881. But I Am Billy the Kid tells a different story, straight

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00:56:32

S4 E14 The Embroidered Book with Kate Heartfield

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/14

Don Butler interviews Ottawa’s Kate Heartfield about her international bestseller, The Embroidered Book , a novel of revolution, magic, and royal romance. “Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that’s all.” 1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie

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00:45:22

S4 E13 Night in the World with Sharon English

Writers Festival Radio ·

2022/06/14

Steven W. Beattie hosts a conversation with Giller Prize nominee Sharon English about Night in the World , a tender ensemble novel about coming home to oneself and one's family through the beauty and soulfulness of Earth, even in an age of unravelling. Brothers Justin and Oliver have never been close. Justin owns an iconic Toronto restaurant and lives with his wife and daughter in Baby Point. Oliver, a former environmental reporter, does admin for a local gym and rents an attic apartment. Yet both

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